Eli Bornowsky – CV

Eli Bornowsky
b. 1980, Alberta, Canada
Lives and works in New York, USA

Education

  • 2014 Master of Fine Arts, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
  • 2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
  • 2001 Diploma, Visual Communication, Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton, Alberta

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024 3.3671984954 × 10^6391, King’s Leap, New York, USA
  • 2021 Eli Bornowsky and Yu Nishimura, King’s Leap, New York City; Art Collaboration, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2020 A Way to Finish Thinking, Canton-Sardine, Vancouver 
  • 2017 Percussion Instruments, Unit 17, Vancouver 
  • 2015 Piano Finish, Violet Strays, online
  • 2014 All is Unmentionable Up in the Air, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
    Madder Lake, with Max Galyon, In Limbo, Brooklyn, USA
    Thin Places, CSA Space, Vancouver
  • 2013 Eli Bornowsky, G Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  • 2010 Walking, Square, Cylinder, Plane, Western Front, Vancouver
  • 2009 Sleep 1, 2, 3, 4, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver
  • 2008 New Works on Paper and Canvas, Blanket, Vancouver
  • 2007 New Paintings, Blanket, Vancouver
  • 2006 Great Drinker and Chandelier, Lobby Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2003 In Advance of the Coffee Table Book. Or Reterritorialized Deterritorializations of a Stream of Consciousness, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2024 No Exit, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
  • 2023 Bridges Math Conference and Exhibition, Sexton Campus, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
  • 2021 In Their Shoes 2, Kayokoyuki, Tokyo, Japan
    The Void, White Columns (online), New York, USA
  • 2020 Usageaster Naps, with Donato Mancicni, utsanga.it (online) 
  • 2019 The Raiders, Terminal Creek Contemporary, Bowen Island, Canada
  • 2018 Under Construction, Terminal Creek Contemporary, Bowen Island, Canada
  • 2017 Ornament of a House: Fifty Years of Collecting, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
    Kitchen Midden, Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, Canada
  • 2016 Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
    An Agreeable State of Uncertainty, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2015 Geometry of Knowing, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
    Close Listening: Eli Bornowsky, Jeremy Hof, Jinny Yu, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada
    Occasional Furniture, The Apartment, Vancouver 
  • 2014 Close Listening: Eli Bornowsky, Jeremy Hof, Jinny Yu, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
  • 2013 What you call Space is really nothing but a vast Plane, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
    New Acquisitions, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
  • 2009 Enacting Abstraction, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2007 Gasoline Rainbows, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
    Let There Be Light, Blanket, Vancouver 
  • 2006 Homemade Polygons, Bjornson Kajiwara, Vancouver
    Way Crafty, Blanket, Vancouver

Selected Books and Exhibition Catalogues

  • 2017 Ellen Van Eijnsbergen, Jennifer Cane, The Ornament of a House: Fifty Years of Collecting, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
  • 2014 Jennifer Cane, Eli Bornowsky: All is Unmentionable, Up in the Air, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Cada
  • 2013 Kim Nguyen, New York New York Book, Artspeak, Vancouver

Magazines and Periodicals

  • 2024 Spencer Everett, ‘Eli Bornowsky: 3.3671984954 x 106391’, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August
  • 2021 Tatum Dooley, ‘The optical rhythms of Eli Bornowsky’, Canadian Art Forecast, 18 August
  • 2020 Lori Waxman, ‘Eli Bornowsky’, The Quarantine Times, 27 June
    Lucien Durey, ‘Eli Bornowsky: A Way to Finish Thinking’, Haunt Gallery, 5 May
  • 2018 Alison Sinkewicz, ‘Vancouver’s Young Gallerists’, Montecristo Magazine, 25 January
  • 2017 Robin Laurence, ‘Burnaby Art Gallery celebrates a half century with The Ornament of a House: 50 Years of Collecting’, The Georgia Straight, 26 July
    Janaya Fuller-Evans, ‘Fifty years of footsteps through the gallery’, Burnaby Now, 11 July
  • 2015 Aaron Peck, ‘Eli Bornowksy at the Burnaby Art Gallery’, Canadian Art, 15 June
  • 2014 Robin Laurence, ‘At the Burnaby Art Gallery, Eli Bornowsky exhibition defies branding’, The Georgia Straight, 25 November
  • 2013 Jacquelyn Ross, ‘After Finitude’, C Magazine 119, Autumn
    Mitch Speed, ‘After Finitude’, Frieze, 15 June
    Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte, ‘Interrogating the “Artist-Curator-as-Artist” in After Finitude’, Decoy Magazine, 2 April
    Robert Linsely, ‘Eli Bornowsky Clowns With Painting at G Gallery’, Canadian Art, 25 February
    Aaron Peck, ‘After Finitude’, Artforum, 23 February
  • 2011 Lee Henderson, ‘Eli Bornowsky’, The Walrus, June
    Robin Laurence, ‘Bornowsky Does Dynamic Duos’, The Georgia Straight, 20 January
    Jenn Jackson, ‘Walking, Square, Cylinder, Plane’, Color Magazine, vol. 8, Issue 6
  • 2009 Nathalee Paolinelli, ‘To Sleep or Not to Sleep’, O1 Magazine
    Kevin Griffin, ‘Vancouver artists push the traditional boundaries of painting’, Vancouver Sun, 1 May
    Aaron Peck, ‘Eli Bornowsky’, Canadian Art, Spring
    Jonah Samson, ‘Interview with Artist Eli Bornowsky’, Cool Hunting, 25 March
  • 2008 Robin Laurence, ‘Making Real: A new ode to abstraction’, The Georgia Straight, 29 October
    Robin Laurence, ‘Eli Bornowsky, Tomoyo Ihaya's work infused by travel, math, mysticism’, The Georgia Straight, 10 September
    Rachelle Sawatsky, ‘Don’t Blink: Three Painters on the Rise’, The Block, Vol. 2 Issue 1, January
  • 2007 Charity West, ‘Gasoline Rainbows at the Contemporary Art Gallery’, Whitehot Magazine, March
  • 2006 Kevin Chong, ‘Has digital art had its day?’, The Globe and Mail, 30 June
    Clint Burnham, ‘Radical Departures in New Spain’, The Vancouver Sun, 15 July

Published Writing by the Artist

  • 2023 Eli Bornowsky, ‘Nicole Ondre: Primes’, Pale Fire Projects, Vancouver
  • 2017 Eli Bornowsky, ‘Angela Teng: To have and to Hold’, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2014 Eli Bornowsky, ‘Landscape in a Figure: On the Work of Rebecca Brewer’, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
  • 2013 Eli Bornowsky, ‘After Finitude: Neil Campbell, Hanne Darboven, Nicole Ondre, Cheyney Thompson’, Or Gallery, Vancouver 
  • 2010 Eli Bornowsky, ‘Speakeasy: Writing and Contemporary Art’, Postscript 38, Artspeak, Vancouver
    Eli Bornowsky, Judy Radul, Metcalfe / Lewis: Ikons, Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Vancouver 
  • 2009 Eli Bornowsky, ‘Just Enough: On Monique Mouton’s Paintings’, Pyramid Power, vol. 1, Issue 4
    Eli Bornowsky, ‘Letter to the Editor, Re: Sholem Krishtalka’s Letter to the Editor in C Magazine Issue 100’, C Magazine 101, Spring
  • 2008 Eli Bornowsky, ‘Letter to the Editor: Art Diasporas’, C Magazine 99, 1 September
  • 2007 Eli Bornowsky, ‘Jillian Pritchard’, C Magazine 94, Summer
  • 2006 Eli Bornowsky, ‘Notes on the Politics of Aesthetics’, Fillip 4, Fall